From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Julien FERRERO <jferrero06@gmail.com>
Cc: stan@hardwarefreak.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS filesystem corruption
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:11:45 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130310221145.GJ23616@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcwv6yAHAsmwgROs12gRtCbqTXBvTPrx8F-e4kYab2YApsobg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:04:32PM +0100, Julien FERRERO wrote:
> > It may be unrelated to your corruption, problem but I'm curious why you
> > are specifying a 32MB log section instead of letting mkfs.xfs make the
> > log size decision.
>
> I honestly don' know, the rebuild script was written 8 years ago by an
> engineer that since left the company.
>
> Is 32MB a short log space for a 1.5 TB of data ?
Depends on your workload.
And to tell the truth, the tiny log is probably the only reason that
your filesystems have gone this long without corruption, as the
small size will force frequent log writes and hence issue cache
flushes regularly....
Cheers,
Dave.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-10 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 15:08 XFS filesystem corruption Julien FERRERO
2013-03-06 15:15 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-03-06 16:16 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-06 16:47 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-06 22:21 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-03-06 23:12 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-07 13:15 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-07 13:40 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-07 23:22 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-08 10:16 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-12 9:57 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-08 8:39 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-08 10:17 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-08 12:20 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-08 18:59 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-09 9:11 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-09 18:51 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-10 22:45 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-10 23:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 0:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 9:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 22:45 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 9:25 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-12 10:54 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-03-12 10:42 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-12 22:16 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-07 3:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-07 13:04 ` Julien FERRERO
2013-03-07 13:32 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-10 2:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-10 22:11 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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